Brown-headed Nuthatch
2/23/08 Greensboro, NC
 Photo  © February 2008 by Lou Skrabec 

Clubs and Organizations

Birding-related Sites

Commercial Bird-oriented Sites

Parks and Refuges

SOURCES FOR NATURE PHOTOS

Miscellaneous Sites of Interest

• The American Eagle Foundation: http://eagles.org/ (Includes pictures of a breeding pair of bald eagles in Tennessee.)
• Audubon Society of Forsyth County:  http://www.forsythaudubon.org
• Carolina Bird Club:  http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/index.html
• Chapel Hill Bird Club: http://chbc.carolinanature.com/
• Christmas Bird Count: http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/index.html
• Greenville County Bird Club: http://gcbirdclub.org/index.html
• Gulf Coast Bird Observatory: http://www.gcbo.org (Its mission is the conservation of birds and their habitat in and around the Gulf of Mexico.)
• New Hope Audubon Society, Chapel Hill, NC: http://www.newhopeaudubon.org/
•  Mecklenburg Audubon Society: http://meckbirds.org/
• The North American Bird Conservation Initiative (NABCI ): http://www.nabci-us.org (dedicated to promoting and advancing integrated bird conservation in the United States.)
• North Carolina Audubon Society: http://www.ncaudubon.org
• North Carolina Partners in Flight (NC-PIF) : http://faculty.ncwc.edu/MBrooks/pif/Bird%20Profiles/bird_profiles.htm (A cooperative effort to further bird conservation by involving government agencies, conservation organizations,
  private industry, the academic community, and citizens)
• Operation Migration: http://www.operationmigration.org/  (A non-profit dedicated to assisting the recovery of the wild Whooping Crane population)
• Pautuxent Wildlife Research Center: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/ (For a lot of scientific  information on birds, songs,  Christmas Counts and Breeding Bird surveys,  bird banding and  statistics.) 
• Southern Wings Bird Club:  http://www.geocities.com/southernwingsbc/(A bird club in Lawrenceville, GA, just N.W. of Atlanta.  A good contact if you happen to be going that way!)
• Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center: http://www.sylvan-heights.org/index.php (A private organization dedicated to breeding endangered waterfowl species, now open to the public.)
• T. Gilbert Pearson Audubon Society: http://www.tgpearsonaudubon.org/

• Birdingonthe.Net: http://www.birdingonthe.net/  (Global birding)
• Birding In Babylon: http://birdingbabylon.blogspot.com/ (A birder stationed in Iraq has placed his birding experience there in a weblog)
• Birds of the Upper Texas Coast: http://www.texasbirding.net/index.html (Birding resources and more)
• The Great Backyard Bird Count: http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/
• Hawk Count: http://hawkcount.org/index.php (facilitates the tracking and reporting of raptor migrations)
• Feathered Fotos: http://www.featheredfotos.com/ (Some great photos of many N. American birds)
• The Life of Birds: http://www.pbs.org/lifeofbirds/ ( David Attenborough's  PBS show, champion birds, evolution of birds, bird songs)
• Ohio Birding Resources: http://www.aves.net/ (Birding resources and more)
• Osprey nest on camera: http://www.friendsofblackwater.org/
• Nature Songs: http://www.naturesongs.com/ (Contains a lot of recorded birdsongs, a lot of them Western)
• North American Bird Photo Gallery: http://www.birdphotography.com/
• Piedmont Wildlife Rehab: http://piedmontwildliferehab.org/
• Rare Bird Alert of the Carolinas: http://www.carolinabirdclub.org/curr_rba.html (lists unusual birds sited, and how to find their locations)
• Traveling Birders: http://birdingpal.com (For links to birders around the world:)
• Wings over Water: http://www.wingsoverwater.org/

• Africam:  http://www.africam.com/ (Great site with cameras in various locations, viewing many animals and birds)
• Birder: http://www.birder.com (Events, games)
• Birding.com : http://www.birding.com/ (all kinds of birding information)
• Bird Watcher’s Digest: http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/ (Web site of the magazine)
• David Allen Sibley's Website: http://www.sibleyguides.com/
• Natural Selections: http://www.thenaturalselection.com/index.html (Birding Software and other products)
• NC Birding Hot Spots: http://www.camacdonald.com/birding/usnorthcarolina.htm
• Surfbirds: http://surfbirds.com/  (not  confined to sea birds:  pictures, photos, sketches, trip reports and lots of information about birds around the world) 
• Ventures Birding Tours: www.birdventures.com
• The Virtual Birder: http://www.virtualbirder.com/  (Birding tours, photo galleries, bird songs, and games you can play to match bird and song.) 

• Whatbird.com is a visual search engine for identifying birds of North America:  http://www.whatbird.com/

• Birkhead Mountains Wilderness Area: http://www.northcarolinaoutdoors.com/places/piedmont/birkhead.html
• Chimney Rock Park:  http://www.chimneyrockpark.com  (An ornithologist at the park leads birding workshops and walks)
• Peabody Park, UNCG: http://www.uncg.edu/bio/facilities/peabody%20park/
• Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge:  http://www.fws.gov/peedee/
• Piedmont Environmental Center :http://www.piedmontenvironmental.com
• Weymouth Woods: http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/wewo/main.php

SOURCES FOR NATURE PHOTOS

Here are some sources for photos that you can use for your displays, reports, or power point presentations. Some of them are in the public domain, like everything from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and don't need to be credited - your tax dollars at work.  Others may need crediting; check the terms of use on the sites.  If you intend to use any photos from the PBC site, you will need to ask permission of the photographer and ask for the original file if it is going to be used in a large format. To find out how to contact the photographer, contact piedmontbirder@triad.rr.com .

• National Digital Library : Home 

• Wikimedia Commons 

• Natures Pics 

• SlideShare

• The Back Porch, a celebration of life around Greensboro, NC: http://www.backporch.org/
• Bird Stamps:  http://www.bird-stamps.org  (a collection stamps with pictures of birds from all over the world.)
• Bird Taxonomy for Birders ( has Sibley & Monroe's List of Birds of the World): http://www.ornitaxa.com/
• Greensboro Area Environmental Events: http://www.freewebs.com/megcalendar/
• North Carolina Zoo: http://www.nczoo.org/
• North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission: http://www.ncwildlife.org/
• Wildlife Rehabilitators of North Carolina: http://www.ncwildliferehab.org/